Tony chats with Mike Hallock, Partner at McCoy Leavitt Laskey and President at Chicago CLM. Mike is an expert in fire and explosion catastrophic claims and is working with CLM to build an Emergency Response Taskforce with over 100 members to aggressively defend instead of always playing catchup to plaintiff appointments. A fascinating conversation!

Mike Hallock: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hallockmichael/

Video Version: https://youtu.be/7wOFHgSTfpk

Tony chats with Lokesh Ballenahalli, Founder and Sunil Shivappa, COO at Enkefalos Technology, they are a research first global AI company focused on building AI solutions for the AI industry. They combine research deep research in LLMs, Responsible AI, and domain expertise to develop what they call the AI operating system for insurance. It has 3 core layers: Insurance GTP, Agentic AI Applications, and Monitoring of that AI.

Lokesh Ballenahalli: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lokesh-ballenahalli/
Sunil Shivappa: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sunil-m-shivappa-86273519a/
Enkefalos Technology: https://www.enkefalos.com/

Video Version: https://youtu.be/u3_xWZyPDEg

Frederick Fisher, Professional Liability Expert and Author of "Claims-Made Insurance The Policy that Changed The Industry: A Deep Dive, Review, and History". A fascinating conversation about the Claims-Made side of insurance! A must not miss episode for anyone in the Professional Lines side of insurance.

Frederick Fisher: https://www.linkedin.com/in/frederick-fisher-j-d-ccp-46b1944/

Claims-Made Insurance The Policy that Changed The Industry: A Deep Dive, Review, and History: https://amzn.to/4nQgWrR

Video Version: https://youtu.be/mCrv3xWRbos

Tony chats with Graham Topol and Michael Topol, Co-Founders and Co-CEOs at MGT Insurance, they are the first Neo Insurer, a modern commercial insurance carrier which they built from the ground up to support small businesses and the agents that support them. A super interesting conversation that you cannot miss!

Graham Topol: https://www.linkedin.com/in/graham-topol-645b5451/
Michael Topol: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-topol-74710b99/

MGT Insurance: https://www.mgtinsurance.com/

Video Version: https://youtu.be/_cJv2osE4-w

Tony chats with Kyle Bartee, Founder and CEO Aviation Ops Ally. They are building an all-in-one app for private pilots that helps them get on the air faster, and helps them with their complicated insurance needs. A super fun conversation, especially for a flight sim nerd like me!

Kyle Bartee: https://www.linkedin.com/in/knjnd-consulting/

Tony chats with Michelle Raue, EVP Chief Claims and Transformation Officer at Preferred Mutual. Michelle has had an incredible claims career and joins me on the show to talk about claims careers, mental health, innovation, and so much more. A cannot miss conversation!

Michelle Raue: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michelleraue/

Video Version: https://youtu.be/t1STEHxd_XI

Brandon Dendas, Owner and Marketing Director at Convirtue. They specialize in helping independent insurance agents grow through content marketing and SEO. They're also now starting to work on LEO: Large Language Model Optimization. You heard it here first (July 2025)! Their approach is different, instead of being top-of-funnel demand gen focused, they optimize bottom-of-funnel transactional content. They focus on people who know what they need and what they created works exceptionally well on Google. Now they're changing that approach to make sure it works with LLMs also.

Brandon Dendas: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brandondendas/
Convirtue: https://www.convirtue.com/

Video Version: https://youtu.be/7pHSC7dAzZ4

Tony chats with Diane Coogan, Co-Founder and CEO and Robert Clark, Co-Founder and EVP at PLACECovr. They created a whole new type of insurance, Location Insurance! What happens if you buy a house and the quality of your state or the quality of your city goes down? PLACECovr can protect your equity. This is what true insurance innovation looks like! A fascinating episode!

Diane Coogan: https://www.linkedin.com/in/diane-coogan-66215812/
Robert Clark: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robert-clark-0245a05/
PLACECovr: https://placecovr.com/

Video Version: https://youtu.be/K2U2junnzHg

Jerry Chien, CEO at Jump Point, they are building the insurance infrastructure of tomorrow built from the ground up from AI first perspective. It helps brokers and insurance companies automate their workflows, gain access to their data that is trapped in all their documents, and build an interface that is transformative to the way you run your operations. You can run your entire operation from voice and text prompts! 🤯 A cannot miss episode!

Jerry Chien: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jerrychienx/
Jump Point: https://www.jumppoint.ai/

Video Version: https://youtu.be/j-dPGIGd_rw

Tony chats with Jacquie Legrand, CEO & Co-Founder at MAPTYCS, they are focused on using geospatial analytics to assess property and climate risk. They offer a web based solution for property risk management and exposure analytics. It the platform you can combine, visualize, and analyze your property portfolio data with multiple a la carte specialty data sets from different third-party providers. This is INCREDIBLY powerful!

Jacquie Legand: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jacqueline-legrand-2806291/
MAPTYCS: https://maptycs.com/

Video Version: https://youtu.be/xe_sgCuTDAQ